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Judges and Judiciary, In Recess


California Court of Appeal Justice Eileen Moore delivered a heart-wrenching speech at the Vietnam Women’s Memorial on Sunday.


Entertainment & Sports, California Courts of Appeal


The final bell has tolled for a high-stakes profit participation lawsuit against Warner Brothers Entertainment Inc. after a 2n...


Criminal, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


An appeals court panel appeared divided Thursday over whether San Francisco can be held liable for the shooting death of a you...


This week’s defense verdict in Northern California finding Johnson & Johnson’s baby powder didn’t give a plaintiff cancer ...


Law Practice, Education Law


A McGeorge School of Law mock trial team won the 17th annual National Civil Trial Competition Sunday.


California Supreme Court, State Bar & Bar Associations


The California Supreme Court denied a petition for review in the State Bar data case Wednesday, ending an 11-year battle.


E-scooter company LimeBike has been sued by one of its “juicers,” workers paid by the company to charge rental scooters and bi...


Criminal, Constitutional Law


Riverside County Superior Court Judge John Malloy indicated he would likely review the unsealed orders in camera before oral ...


Civil Litigation


Uber to pay $10M over salary discrepancies

Nov. 16, 2018
By Sean Kagan

Women, minorities were paid less than white and Asian men.


Government, Criminal


Former prosecutors are backing the bill in ways state prosecutors did not when similar measures were working their way through...


Judges and Judiciary, Government, California Supreme Court


Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday nominated his legal affairs aide Joshua Groban to sit on the state Supreme Court.


Civil Litigation


1st suit over Camp Fire filed against PG&E

Nov. 15, 2018
By Justin Kloczko

While the first of potentially thousands of lawsuits related to the recent wildfires has been filed against Pacific Gas & ...


Law Practice, Corporate


Shawn Baldwin, who comes from Equifax Inc. and Seyfarth Shaw LLP, will be developing Select Interior Concept Inc.’s legal poli...


Law Practice


Marc Dworsky, who was lead counsel for all of the nation’s residential mortgage-backed litigation against Wells Fargo, moves t...


Intellectual Property, Criminal


Prosecution rests in Mongols racketeering trial

Nov. 15, 2018
By Meghann Cuniff

Two retired federal agents who infiltrated outlaw motorcycle gangs recently took the unusual role of defense witnesses for the...


Civil Litigation, Civil Rights


With the jury selected, a personal injury trial began Wednesday involving a Texas man accusing Monster Energy Drinks of causin...


Immigration, Government


Thousands of immigrants were deported in the last fiscal year as the result of information sent to the federal government by C...


Securities, Civil Litigation, Corporate


An executive accused of insider trading will pay $1.5 million to settle a Securities and Exchange Commission case against him,...


Law Practice


Specialists Michele Haydel Gehrke and Anne Cherry Barnett have left Polsinelli LLP to take point in Reed Smith LLP’s labor dep...


Judges and Judiciary, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


The White House has filed formal paperwork to nominate five attorneys and one state judge to a slate of federal bench seats in...


Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced Joshua Groban as his choice for associate justice of the California Supreme Court.


Education Law


UC Berkeley Law abandons Boalt name

Nov. 14, 2018
By Erin Lee

Berkeley Law is eliminating the Boalt name from its campus in light of John Boalt’s racist views.


Civil Litigation, Government


As firefighters battle deadly blazes across California, wildfire liability promises to be one of the biggest issues in the sta...


Labor/Employment, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


A UC Berkeley administrator who oversees Title IX compliance has been selected as the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ first...


Labor/Employment


By a federal judge’s post-trial rulings on the nature and calculation of damages in an employment misclassification trial agai...


Entertainment & Sports, Antitrust & Trade Reg.


The National Collegiate Athletic Association argued that its viewers “overwhelmingly oppose” upending the current compensation...


Constitutional Law, Civil Rights, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


A Virginia-based animal advocacy group trying to stop an Orange County synagogue from practicing the ritual slaughter of chick...


Immigration, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


Immigrant children facing deportation will not automatically be given immigration lawyers after 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appe...


Government, Criminal, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


Attorneys from Rosen Bien Galvan & Grunfeld LLP are representing the class, which filed a federal lawsuit in 1991 alleging...


Government


A judge has tentatively ruled that the city of Santa Monica’s election system violated the California Voting Rights Act, the 2...